Game Downloads

A UK Daily Mail online report puts Eidos parent company SCi Entertainment actively out on the sale block again. Though no specifics are given, it says that the company has received preliminary inquiries from Electronic Arts and Ubisoft. Both companies have been the subject of rumors surrounding the potential sale of SCi since the ouster of its former CEO and founder Jane Cavanagh in January of this year. Her replacement, Phil Rogers, came over from Electronic Arts where he had been Vice-President of Corporate Development in February of 2007.

Final Fantasy CCEoT 'Debut' trailer
Square Enix announced Monday that the Wii and DS-bridging Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time will arrive on North American shelves in "Spring 2009." While that's not quite as specific as we'd hoped, it's better than the previous release date of simply "sometime in 2009."

Check out our Games of 2009 hub page for exclusive previews every weekday in December.

As an English major, I've always been excited by the prospect of mixing my love of videogames with my love of fine literature. Unfortunately, it doesn't sound like Square Enix is going to be jumping on their epic RPG adaptation of George Eliot's Middlemarch, and Epic has delayed their Unreal 3 Engine version of The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde, so for now I'll need to settle for Nintendo's just-announced 100 Classic Book Collection for the DS (via Eurogamer).